[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps
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#10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps
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Reporter: Denis-de-Bernardy | Owner:
Type: task (blessed) | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: Future Release
Component: Role/Capability | Version: 2.8
Severity: normal | Keywords: 2nd-opinion
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Changes (by apljdi):
* cc: apljdi (added)
Comment:
Added my +1 for most of this discussion.
The only thing I don't like about the proposed changes is the "no user-
specific caps" parts. I use this feature extensively. If I didn't have it
I'd be doubling the Roles on one of my sites, and I've already doubled the
Roles that ship with WP. Since these extra Roles would be identical, save
one or two caps, to already existing Roles that seems pointless. I also
have a case where a user needs to be in a particular Role because that is
here primary function on the site but that user is also the site, and
business, owner and so needs far more permissions than the average user in
the role. I could assign multiple Roles but since that is going away, that
won't work for long.
It occurs to me that I may be looking at this backwards from some of you,
maybe even most of you, in thinking of capabilities as being primary and
roles as being a secondary but useful and convenient way to group
capabilities.
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10201#comment:34>
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